Improved washing and wringing machine



ELIAS C. PATTERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,176, dated March122, 1866.

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, ELIAS C. PATTERSON, of Chicago, Cook county, andState of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Washing- Machine andWringer Combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, mak` ing a part ot' this specification, in which-Figure 1 is an elevation of one side of my machine. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section taken in a vertical plan through the center of themachine. Fig. 3 is the roller with a portion ot' the slats out. Fig. 4is the bed-piece with a portion of the slats out. Fig. 5 is thebed-piece and apron combined, with the roller resting upon the apron,also showing the connection of the bed-piece with the wringer.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveral igures.

My invention relates to the bed-piece working upon a pivot, thebed-piece being worked by the Weight of the roller. As the same rollsfrom the fulcrum the bed-piece acts as a lever, pressing the underroller of the wrin ger tighter to the upper one.

My invention also relates to the raising of the roller from thebed-piece upon an apron.

To enable. others skilled in the art to understand, construct, and usemy invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings A represents the frame of the machine. Brepresents the roller, which is worked from one end of the box to theother over the clothes by means of a lever or any other means which ispreferred. C represents the bed-piece, which contains the clothes. Drepresents the pivot, upon which the bed-piece C rests, as shown in Fig.2. E represents the rollers of the wringer. F represents the standardsto the upper roller, which are fastened to the frame A by means of boltsor screws. G represents the standards to the under roller, which standupon the end of bed-piece C.

H represents an apron at the other end of the bed-piece, upon which theroller B can be raised, giving a better opportunity to putin and takeout the clothes. This apron can be raised or lowered at will, one endworking on a hinge, I, which is fastened to the extreme end of bed-pieceC.

J represents the screws or nails which secure the slats to the roller Band bed-piece C, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4..

The frame or box A should be made watertight, about three feet long byone wide and deep. The bed-piece C is long and wide enough to till thelength and width of box A, and about six inches deep, concave at eachend, so that the roller B will it it.

The roller B should `be about twelve inches long by the same indiameter, of solid, heavy wood, covered with slats, as shown in Fig.v3,and instead of fastening the slats to the roller and bed-piece byputting screws or nails through the slats into the roller and bed-piece,leaving the heads exposed to rust and .tear the clothes, I put thescrews or nails through a sheet-iron or zinc plate, K, as shown in Fig.3, which is secured to the ends ot` the roller, being cut about one inchlarger in diameter than the roller, projecting out enough to admit aboutone-half of each end of each slat, into which the nails J are drivenfrom the outside, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, leaving the roller andbed-piece,when completed, free from any screw or nail heads, which wouldrust and injure the clothes, also making it more convenient to putin newslats at any time.

For the purpose of having the roller B out of the wayin putting in andtaking out clothes, letter H represents an apron upon which the roller Bcan be raised, at the saine time resting upon the extreme end of thelever or bedpiece C, which acts as a lever. Apron H is about one footsquare; itis raised and lowered at will, being secured to bed-piece C bya hinge. Fig. 5 represents it with the roller resting upon it.

The wringer is regulated by the weight of the roller B, as shown in Fig.5. The bedpiece C acts as a lever working' on the pivot D, as shown inFigs. 2 and 5. The thickness of the article lowers the lower rollerofthe wringer, which lowers the end of the bedpiece upon which thestandards of the roller stand, at the same time raising the other end ofthe bed-piece and roller, making the most perfect, simple,self-regulating Wringer that can be imagined, doing away with allspiral, rubber, and other springs, which have to be altered every timeyou use it to snit the thickness of different articles, and in a shorttime these different springs lose their strength.

Having described myinvention, I will specify what I claim as myinvention and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. The working of the bed G over a pivot,

D, forming a lever, in combination With the roller, substantially asdescribed.

2. The manner ofeonstruetin gthe Wringer, in combination with the bed Gand roller B, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the apron H with the bed C, substantially asdescribed.

" E. C. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

J AMES S. WILLIAMS, GEO. L. SAMPEN.

